You still have a week to get that Ectocomp game submitted! itch.io/jam/ectocomp... (feel free to pass it on)

the Mariko Aoki phenomenon, but for sitting down with a timer to get writing done

The stupid cat is 15 now and still looking out windows 🥹 www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6KI...

I finally got around to playing Return of the Obra Dinn. May the person who made an anti-motion sickness mod for it know my undying gratitude

Congratulations to the winners! A very strong batch of games this year. I didn't get to play and rate nearly as many as I wanted to; same as it ever was. (*cough* please fill out the survey golmac.org/your-opinion...)

Beef 'O' Brady's is NOT a real restaurant name and I refuse to believe that it is

Happy birthday to the best meme (and possibly best thing at all) I've ever made

*Chappell Roan voice* Goat Tower Farm

a hot take: digging up assholes from your replies to screenshot them for clapbacky ragebait content is just platforming them hate that this is what the algorithm demands, but if the cost of visibility is handing your mic over to the worst possible people, maybe you should reconsider why you want it

How is "bleb" an actual conventional medical term? Cute-animal-meme-ass vocabulary. Deeply unserious

The Play for Peace: Games for Palestine charity bundle is now live! Nearly 400 games from creators all around the world, with proceeds going directly to Gaza relief efforts. Bundle link: itch.io/b/2979/play-... We made a launch trailer to celebrate this moment👇 Please RT.

🎉 The 31st Annual #IFComp is live! 85 new interactive fiction entries are ready for you to play and judge. (You only need to rate 5 to cast a ballot!) Read more about this year's competition at blog.ifcomp.org Or just dive straight in: ifcomp.org/ballot

Something that actually *has* come to fruition lately: new song, this collab with Rescue Shelter, about a year in the making! So excited we got to do this.

Most of my "out of your comfort zone" recs on StoryGraph are in the vein of "organize your shit, you chaos sprite," which: a) rude but fair b) what tipped you off, "always reading multiple books at once" or "alternating between finishing several books a week and not updating for two months"?

well, I bit off more than I could chew, didn't finish my IFComp entry in time, and I've been essentially dead to the world stressing out over projects at various stages of (non)completion for a month, but... at least I had fun sometimes, and the weather's cool enough to go outside again?

for the evening crowd

been playing with air-dry clay lately because it's a more tactile form of creativity I don't have the time to overthink too much ("curbside"/"noise-to-signal"/"no worries if not"/"luck in a rainy season")

Tom Lehrer made all of his music 100% public domain so if seeing people sad about his death makes you want to check them out… it’s free. he wanted you to share them. tomlehrersongs.com

aw man, Tom Lehrer had a good long run, but still

MY REAL AND SINCERE APOLOGY TO MORAL CRUSADERS ednaarel.neocities.org/apology

could I excise it without the story falling apart? yeah, sure. but why should I have to? choke on my disaster-bisexual melancholy, you tedious Bowdler fucks

me working on my current interactive fiction WIP: "wow I'm putting in a small amount of ~adult content~ that's plot-appropriate and not even particularly erotic in context, can't wait to post this to itch dot io" me seeing the news on Discord, then here: "lmao fuck me I guess"

a) I agree with this bookstore's sentiments b) the Venn diagram of "people who think anyone engaging in any sort of action in public must inherently be performing for others" and "people who feel the need to manufacture weirdass takes like this for online attention/validation" is basically a circle

Play all the rad games! They're for charity, and they're probably mostly better than mine. itch.io/jam/neo-twin...

I've been in a slump with my larger ongoing project (thanks no thanks, burnout), but I pulled together a tiny trilogy for Neo-Twiny Jam 2025. #interactivefiction

I don't know how the animator got access to the inside of my brain, but

if I ever gain unlimited power over the workings of the universe, I'm going to start by making every motorized lawnmower a useless brick. shut up just SHUT UP WHY DO I HAVE TO HEAR THIS FOR HOURS

continually playing the game "am I actually a kind person or is it just a permanent fawn response?"

in a continual cycle of "turn in one library book, pick up two more holds"

the fireflies have returned!

The Pokemon that runs this account

shoutout to the guys blasting music at the bus stop who, as soon as I started waiting there, switched from Boondox's "Lezbehonest" to "Hand in My Pocket" by Alanis Morissette. the room, it was read

Want a challenge? Or thrive on making tiny games? Looking to do a little good? You have 500 words to make an IF game. All entries will be matched into a donation to LGBTQ+ organisations! tinyurl.com/ntj25 #interactivefiction #visualnovel #gamejam #fundraising #lgbtq+

I mean, it's the escalator one or the Duck Opinions one in general, but right now I'm feeling "I'm sick of following my dreams, man, I'm just gonna ask where they're going and hook up with them later"

peak quiz of the day

I definitely don't think we need the pope's thoughts on Exile in Guyville, but it's entertaining that he might be aware of its existence

This is another delightfully surreal piece I've played and enjoyed. Can't wait to try the others!

This was my interactive fiction debut, and I've always wished to have a few more people wander through it with me. Now you can!

I forgot how time worked and then was out of town partaking in friendship and escapism all weekend, but HEY, the Indiepocalypse I'm in came out on Friday! Look at all these great games!

Nothing beats travelling to remind me that I've never arrived, I'm always en route. There's no destination as long as I'm alive.

because I'm trash who can't just leave it on an openly sentimental note:

none of this is mine to hold on to

I don't want to try to survive end stage capitalism I want to stay in perpetual motion, unknown and unperceived, wandering down endless side streets in endless cities, absorbing new geographies, heedless of anything but the moment barring that, let me just lie in the dark listening to dreampop idk

cat won't stop licking my bra cast off at the foot of my bed. godspeed, you little freak

Clemson losing by two points right off the bat doesn't bode well for my office bracket lmao

Laissez les bons temps rouler, or the Polish equivalent thereof

Today is the absolute last day to register intent for the Spring Thing Festival of Interactive Fiction. Make stuff, tell your friends, etc. www.springthing.net/2025/submit....

I'm not "bed rotting," I'm holding space for a flourishing mycorrhizal network

One day, the sadness will end. 🥧 ☕️🦉 Happy Twin Peaks Day, everyone.